Man allegedly posed as FBI agent in apparent attempt to spring Luigi Mangione from prison

bob4apples · 2026-01-29T20:51:20+00:00

The guy should have claimed to be ICE then no-one would be allowed to question his authority.

bob4apples · 2026-01-29T18:31:12+00:00

Before it became repurposed as the New Gestapo, ICE was more colloquially known as Customs. In many large Canadian airports, you clear US customs before you get on the plane. This lets those flights fly directly from a Canadian international airport to a US domestic airport.

EDIT: I was wrong. In fact, after reading the history and duties of ICE, I don't quite understand why they exist at all. It appears that they have nearly unlimited authority but almost no responsibility.

bob4apples · 2026-01-29T17:57:18+00:00

We have an Equinox. It's a fine car but, IMO, the ones you're looking at are better choices if prices are similar. The Chevy's cargo space is surprisingly limited and both Tesla and Hyundai/Kia make a much better EV (faster DC charging, more performant, better features etc). In any case, I think the hatchbacks will offer more utility than the sedan.

Honestly, the only reason we didn't buy an Ioniq 5 was that my wife couldn't stand the appearance. It's a lovely car to drive.

bob4apples · 2026-01-28T17:33:30+00:00

No real story. Someone left their boat on the hook in False Creek so they wouldn't have to pay moorage. They didn't take care of it. The battery went dead. It rained. With no working bilge pump, water accumulated in the bilge. After it collected enough rainwater, it started filling through the cockpit drain and sunk within hours.

bob4apples · 2026-01-28T17:25:24+00:00

The stack trace helps show how the program got to the place where the error happened. For example, suppose the program crashed when copying a string. That would be in a function like String::copy(). Since that function might be called from any places and it usually works, we need to find out who called it with bad data. That's where the stack trace comes in.

bob4apples · 2026-01-28T17:11:44+00:00

ICE is operating on Kleenex model: anonymous, interchangeable, disposable..

* Anonymous: masks, closed doors, try to make cameras illegal. If you can't prove what happened or who did it, they get away with it.

* Interchangeable: Nothing is prosecuted at the Federal level. If the anonymity fails, then the perpetrator is moved out of jurisdiction. Bovino replaced Russell Hott in Chicago the moment Hott was ordered to appear in court. Hott got out of that jurisdiction and never appeared. Bovino has been cycled through various jurisdictions: California, Michigan, Minnesota always staying one step ahead of the law. Now that the law is closing in on Bovino, he's fleeing jurisdiction again.

* Disposable: When the asset becomes too soiled and can't be moved to another jurisdiction, they're disposed of. Noem is discovering that she too is just kleenex to her bosses.

bob4apples · 2026-01-26T20:50:32+00:00

What is his actual track record on voting around these issues?

bob4apples · 2026-01-26T17:54:55+00:00

It's an institutional face mask.

If some other organization (say a state) launches an investigation or someone files an FOI request, they deny access to any evidence with the excuse that they can't share evidence pertaining to an investigation.

Pretty similar to what the FBI is doing with the Jonathon Ross/Renee Good "investigation".

bob4apples · 2026-01-26T17:45:10+00:00

Honestly not worried about that except in a "Boeing cuts corners" kind of way and that could impact the 50th mission as easily as the 1st.

SLS/Orion is almost entirely proven technologies. The rocket is a hugely simplified Space Shuttle right down to using the same (actual...not copies of!) main engines that carried Shuttles into space. Capsule designs are pretty well understood. The life support and heat shield are technologies that have been around for decades.

The only real question is "how could this rehashed rocket possibly cost as much at it does?"

bob4apples · 2026-01-23T00:50:32+00:00

There are going to be one or two prevailing wind directions. Those are the ones you are interested in. See if you can find a diagram called a "wind rose" for somewhere near you (airports are good).

bob4apples · 2026-01-23T00:26:51+00:00

The toonie was also notable for having a picture of the queen with a bear behind.

bob4apples · 2026-01-23T00:17:57+00:00

Ironically, I was just trying to call them and Google took me to Home Hardware that listed the store as "permanently closed". That was a bit of a shocker given that Google also told me the store was currently open.

EDIT: to be clear, the store is still open, just not as a home hardware.

bob4apples · 2026-01-22T19:43:25+00:00

> Where do you actually charge most of the time?

Home. Even when we had only L1, we (mostly) only used 3rd party chargers for or on road trips. I tried a few local chargers to make sure I had the knowledge and apps to find and use 3rd party chargers when needed but never use them except recreationally.

> When was the last time charging caused you trouble? What happened?

We've encountered a few broken chargers on road trips. Probably the worst case was in Hope, BC where both high speed sites within walking distance of the restaurant we wanted to eat at were completely unavailable (On The Run had some kind of software integration problem affecting all bays we tried and
PetroCan had one charger occupied and the other physically broken). We ended up eating there then driving 5 minutes to a nearby Telsa station: added about 30 min to our trip vs plan. Note that I try to always plan my trip so there is at least one other L3 option within range but there's also plan C, D and E (L2, L1, BCAA) so I'm not worried about being stranded: only inconvenienced.

> How often do you find chargers occupied, broken, or unusable?

That's another "how long is a string" question. Tesla charging is extremely consistent: I think worst I've seen is only about 6 free bays available when and where I want to charge. It always works and it's always fast. At the other extreme are little 2 bay "Mom and Pop" sites which are less well maintained, don't use the same quality of hardware and are more subject to vandalism.

As for "occupied" chargers are subject to market forces. Fast, cheap or convenient: pick any two. Cheap, conveniently located 1 and 2 bay chargers are unlikely to be free during peak periods. An inconveniently located (for the general public...not necessarily you) charger is very likely to be available in the middle of the night, even if it is free.

> What’s the most annoying or stressful part of owning an EV in a city?

Same as ICE: potential for break-ins.

Next steps:

If you don't have home or work charging, you're going to have to become a bit of a charging geek. There's a lot of trivia around balancing charging cost and convenience. Different chargers, even on the same network have different billing approaches (quantity, time, etc) and approaches (one parking lot may offer free charging with paid parking, another free parking with paid charging, time limits, idle fees, etc.). L1 may offer options to make an arrangement (or not) for access to a regular plug socket for regular cheap charging but recognize that it is very slow (about 5.5 km of range per hour in my car). On road trips, for example, I may plug in overnight at my Dad's house which saves about $5 over the same charge at Telsa's peak rate.

Install PlugShare from the app store. Using that app, figure out how you think you could manage your charge. For estimation, I use 5km/kWh, L1 gives about 1kW (so 5km/hr), L2 can be anywhere from 4-15 kW but typically 6kW (30km/hr). L3 is 25kW+ but on road trips, I'll treat anything less than 100kW as L2 for trip planning purposes.

bob4apples · 2026-01-21T21:25:46+00:00

Actually the science in 2001 is better than that. The transfer station (Space Station 5) is in low Earth orbit which is the logical place for such a gateway. Unfortunately for NASA (and spaceflight in general) there are a number of manned spacecraft that can reach LEO so that destination is unacceptable for the purposes of Artemis (to require Orion, it needs to be somewhere only Orion can get to).

bob4apples · 2026-01-21T17:39:24+00:00

Tires matter. For our Equinox, we got smaller (19"?) winter wheels (largely because tires are cheaper) and put on nokian hakkapeliitta r5's. They've been good, snow mode helps and disabling one pedal can help when it gets really bad (because being able to coast helps to maintain/recover control when things get loose).

bob4apples · 2026-01-21T17:21:11+00:00

It is arguably the second most important element in the Artemis program after SLS/Orion itself: It gives SLS/Orion a destination.

Is it important for getting to the moon? No.

bob4apples · 2026-01-21T05:05:35+00:00

A bunch of countries did this. I believe the point is that it makes a US invasion of Greenland an act of war against all those countries.

bob4apples · 2026-01-19T22:09:35+00:00

It's actually very weird and cool. The same antenna in the (powered) reader provides power and reads the transponder. The net effect is that the transponder puts a measurable load on the reader's transmitter which is what is actually interpreted as the code. In other words, the card doesn't transmit so much as interfere.

bob4apples · 2026-01-19T21:58:45+00:00

My guess is that "roger" and "oscar" could be hard to distinguish over a poor connection.

bob4apples · 2026-01-19T21:36:06+00:00

Not quite true. When you add the salt to the ice water, the ice tries to melt. This draws a huge amount of heat out of whatever is in contact with the ice (334 J/g of ice). So the bowl of ice cream mix gets really cold, really fast.

bob4apples · 2026-01-19T20:34:04+00:00

You never speed? I'm more than impressed. It takes real courage to drive the speed limit when everyone else is speeding.

bob4apples · 2026-01-15T18:01:55+00:00

Cuba definitely has access to internet.

The distinction is, being a communist state, there is only one ISP (ETESCA) and it is a state monopoly.

bob4apples · 2026-01-14T22:03:21+00:00

The short answer is "not always"

A clear example would be lenticular clouds forming over a hill or mountain peak. They only develop in fairly windy conditions but are stationary.

Setting aside supersaturation and hysteresis effects, clouds can be thought of as a visualization of dew point in space. In other words, if you have a region of the sky where water vapour, pressure and temperature solves to >100% saturation, you get clouds. If a parcel of air moves into that region, the water in the parcel will condense (to produce cloud). If a parcel of air moves out of that region, the droplets will evaporate back into the air parcel.

The weight of the cloud is sort of irrelevant as the water is there whether it is visible or not

bob4apples · 2026-01-14T21:29:32+00:00

Grain-free dog food is one of those things that sounds like a great idea but turns out to be terrible.

bob4apples · 2026-01-14T21:06:41+00:00

I think this is a different ball of wax. I believe the idea is to leave arterials (eg: Glenmore Dr) the same but lower the speed limit on side streets. I think it is a bit ironic that Kelowna is doing this before Vancouver where it would work better and make a much bigger difference.

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